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Well, what happens is that I turn it on and it sounds like it is booting, I hear the HD start up and make on sound and then it just sits there; turned on and nothing on the screen. Any ideas? :?:

ok heres the problem: I am running two hard drives each w/ XP Professional on them. I get my new 120 gig hard drive and get XP running on it etc etc. Its now time to format the old hard drive and use it for file storage. So i go …

I bought a game for my kids that will run on my system (according to the Minimum System Requirements: Supported OS: Windows

This is pissing me off. Random restarts. I know the topic has bee discusses many a time before. But i've never heard anyone speak of this particular error. I hate it, i'm angry, lol, and I am about ready to make the "Switch" if you know what i'm talking about. …

Hi all! I need help applying to grad school. All of the forms are online as .pdf documents. I'm supposed to somehow fill them out on my computer and then print them and mail them. One school suggests using cutting and pasting with a word processor. I have tried that …

Hi Hope that some one can help. My I.S.P. is NTL but when it was down last week I installed Freeserve and then uninstalled it. but can not get rid of it in I.E. it has set it's self as the defult home page and refuse to let me change …

Cannot get IE to start using desktop shortcut or by clicking on the iexplore.exe in the c: I was able to get a IE window to open up by opening up a program in my PC and clicking on their update link. Thats the only way I can get an …

Please can somebody help me get rid of the following problem: Every time I hit the seach button on ie6 it takes me to a music box site and places 40best.com: BookMark NOW on the bar below and keeps a pop up coming up and keeps reverting me back to …

I'm running ie on an home edition xp computer, and for the past few weeks whenever i've tried running ie, a message pops-up saying Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close, we're sorry, blah blah blah- i haven't done anything drastically diff. on my puter, but i …

Here's the problem: I am fixing this computer because it will not turn on. Well, I replace the battery in the MB, but now all it does is just turns on; no boot, no display no nothing. Any suggestions?

Ok ,I am started to get annoyed at this problem but anyways here I go. When I go to My Computer and click on my D: Drive which is a hard drive it says please go to the control panel to instal or remove programs. When I right-click on the …

Whenever I have multiple IE windows open, a couple of them refuse to close, even after I've closed IE... I have to kill them with Task Manager, which is annoying. I suspect it's something simple, but I've gone through all the IE menu options and can't figure out what I'm …

[size=3]Hi All, I am having trouble with my xp os. Everytime I start my computer it doesn't pick up my CD-rom. I have a older IBM computer PIII with a 500 mhz and tons of Ram, Everything else is working great, I just have to reinstall my drivers for cd-rom …

Well, I don't normally give out my email addy on bulletin boards, but I'm desperate. I can't access other threads to find out the solution to this problem because IE won't go to those links! ARGH!! Could someone please email me some help? My email address is [email]loveliftin@yahoo.com[/email]. I would …

Hello.I'm having a problem running a game from winxp pro.My graphics card is a 32mb riva tnt 2 and hard disk is 32 gigabyte.The game is Archangel and the setup finishes very well.When I click on the desktop menu or from program files menu , first the screen goes black …

Ok, i have a very fustrating problem. My buddies on messenger cannot recieve my IM's although i recieve theirs ok. This started happening about 4 weeks ago I've reinstalled messenger 6 it made no difference. I'm using aol dial up so I contacted aol about the problem and they say …

My old (not really that old) Compaq died on me. I bought a new Dell. I wanted to keep the info on the Compaq so I installed its hard drive in my Dell as a secondary. I got all my pic's which is what I really wanted. But I cannot …

Hi, This is the sceneario......... I took my HDD out and put it in my mate computer, took out the jumper to make it a slave drive, and i loaded files in it..... i didn't change boot file or ne thing. I put the jumper back in to make it …

Im trying to transfer some data from my old Western Digital 30G hard drive to my new Maxtor 80G SATA drive. When i hook up the old drive in my new comp, as a Primary Slave, i cannot get i to boot from my Maxtor, and it actually dosent even …

I have a 17" VGA Monitor, bout 3-4 years old. It was connected to my PC which is also about years old, and it was working fine. But when I removed it and put it on my old Packard Bell the Screen became really wavey. So i thought it might …

Hey guys, first post here... I recently configured my PC (XP-PRO SP1) to have more than one user, for my roommate. I want him as a Power User or regular User. I'm doing it so he can't access my documents and whatnot. I set everything up but when I log …

I have a user with a PC running Windows XP home, on a Novell netware network and a bordermanager proxy server. Since the computer is shared by many users, they like to utilise the personalised background part of Windows XP and log in locally as different users. The first user …

Hello all...pretty nre to this game but I'm in need of assistance. I decided (maybe unwisely) to build my own PC. I have the following - Asrock m/board/XP 2000 processor/256 DDR 400/Geforce graphics/cdrom/40 gb harddrive. Just a bare system for me to build on really.... Anyway, I have both 98 …

I have 3 win2000 boxes and my main one has the broadband connection. In it I have two network cards in which the main card is set up for IP sharing. It passes the goods over to the second card and out to the second box. They now both have …

im in a horrible situation for installing windows 2003 on my windows 200 machine... 1) bios doesnt find any boot record from the cd. WHY???? 2) installing win2k3 from a windows machine puts temporary setup files on the hard drive, making it impossible to reformat and clean install on reboot. …

Have you ever seen IE got locked up for as long as 20 seconds because the page has a popup window? If you do, have you solved the problem? Please tell me how. I used to solve it by updating MS Virtual machine 3 months ago. But yesterday I installed …

Hi can someone help me my ie is not opening it just thinks and thinks and nothing opens can someone help me here please?

Well I just installed winxp pro but unfortunately i can't find any microsoft word,powerpoint,excel anywhere in program files.I went to microsoft.com but I could only find add-ons.If anyone knows the exact site address , I think someone should copy and paste here...

Hello Guys, I have Windows 2000 OS on P IV intel pentium 256 MB RAM. Since 2 days my pc keeps on freezing when I try to open something, sometimes it works properly and then when I try opening windows media player or may be a bigger application it freezes, …

I've got a problem with my windows XP-pro (service pack 1) operated PC. It cannot process some particular web sites. e.g. when I tried to go to this URL: [url]http://www.torsas.org/meeting.htm[/url] IE (even Netscape) either hung up (not responding) or shut down itself. Any help and ideas would be much appreciated. …

I have a computer in my room, and it is somewhat noisy. Naturally, before I go to bed, I want to put it on standby mode. The computer supports APM and ACPI, but there is no place to turn on standby mode. I did some research, and found in a …

hi all, i've been visiting a website that has installed much spyware on my computer. lavasoft adaware could remove most of it. but if i simply enter 'yahoo.com', ie does not find the website yahoo.com but show the address: [url]http:///?%20yahoo.com.What[/url] can i do to have the [url]http:///?%20[/url] removed, that is …

Is there any way to increase the default time after internet explorer timeouts (5 mins)? I found this article: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B181050[/url] but even after doing so there was no effect. I tried many other things but without success. Can anyone help me out?

ok, well my friend cant go on the internet and when cs opens his comp crashes... everything closes.. and he has to reboot, its not the worm bug or blaster virus, it says his kernel32.dll theres something wrong with it.. anyone know what? or how to fix it? cuz he …

This is my first post, TIA. I keep trying to partition my new 120 Gb Western Digital with two partitions, c: & d: (using Windows XP recovery console), but when I go to format the second partition it names it f:. What can I do to get the second partition …

i really need someones help here...okay my computer wont load windows. everytime i try to turn it on it goes to this black screen that says that windows is messing up and i have a list of 4 options that say like load windows normally...or safe mode or what ever. …

good day ppl. I got problem with my Internet Explorer(IE)-already updated the new version, but still the problem is coming. My default page is re-directing to and X site, even I change it and when I open again(My IE), it will change again, which annoy me very much..please help.

Hi everybody, Iam new here, can somebody help me out, Iam running a Windows 2000 server, the cpu right know is at 100%, I try to look for what is causing the problem I do not find the problem, can somebody give me some advice or help that would solve …

i need to fdisk my comp right now (im on a different comp posting this)the problem is that i cant get my comop to start up with windows and i cant reboot it either but i can get to the bios and stuff if theres a way to fdisk my …

i am on a brand new computer.. everything works great but the comp keeps freezing on me and i can't figure out why.. it happens frequently and seems to happen especially when i use the cd drives, either of the two i have on here.. i can't figure it out …

can anyone tell me what this is? all of a sudden it started showing up in my processes window, and when it runs it slows my comp down to a near halt.. i cannot find what program, if any, it is associated with or where it came from.. i ran …

I was just wondering if anybody here knows anything about this file. I have been trying to figure out what's going on with my machine for over a week now. I recently located the problem; a program file that loads in the windows startup sequence. I'm assuming that this file …

I am running Windows 98. I just installed a printer and am trying to use the USB port to connect. It states that the driver is not installed. I have tried a few drivers without success. How do I know which driver to install and where do I get it?? …

ok, if anybody has had this and knows how to fix it please tell me. Wheneve I try to run any CD game or something in my C: drive (local Disk) it comes up with this error: -------------------------------------------------------------- An exception 0E has occured at 0028:c18281DD in V x D scs:1hlp(03) …

Keep getting an error every time booting up. 1st error is loader has caused in error in loader.exe and then c:\windows\iedll.exe file appears to be corrupt. This is on Windows Me.

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Hi All in windows 2000, if you open the 'my network places' folder and nav' to the list of computers, you can display them by name or by comment. does anyone know how to add these comments to the computers. my aim is to be able to arange the computers …

Hi, I recently put in a new motherboard into my second computer because the other one broke. Everything loads of fine and works, im using a Windows 98 boot disk right now. The only odd thing is that when booting up it cound NV RAM to 1300000 when I really …

I am receiving an error msg which reads, iedll has caused an error in <unknown>. Does anyone know what this is caused by and how to fix it.

WindowsXP Home, IE6 with all updates, Ad-Adwae run daily. I think my IE6 is corrupted, there are many websites that I cannot connect to. An example is ESPN. When I click the link on IE, it looks like it starts loading, but never finishes.The blue bar goes about 1/3 of …